Reviews: Duane, Diane

The Door into Fire —
Diane Duane
The Tale of the Five, book 1

1979’s
The
Door into Fire is
the first volume of Diane Duane’s
Tale of the Five. As
I recall, there were to be at least four books in the series, but as
of this posting, only two further volumes, The
Door into Shadow
and The
Door into Sunset, have
been published. A fourth book,
The Door into Starlight,
is mentioned on ISFDB, but only as “unpublished.”

In
a world where grimdark rules the fantasy bookshelves, this book may
seem like an oddly touchy-feely secondary world fantasy. It was even
more remarkable back in the Disco Era, when it was first published.